Israeli Justice Minister Calls Facebook a "Monster"

Israel’s justice minister Gilad Erdan has called Facebook a “monster” for “sabotaging” police investigations and called on Israelis to “flood” Mark Zuckerberg and make him change the site’s policy.

In a television interview, Erdan said that the recent increase in street attacks by Palestinians was encouraged on Facebook, and the company has not been quick enough to remove violence-inciting posts because there is “a very high bar for removing inciteful content and posts”. Erdan added that Facebook does not cooperate in West Bank investigations and asked Israelis to “flood” Zuckerberg “in every possible place with the demand to monitor the platform he established and from which he earns billions”.

For its part, a Facebook spokesperson told Reuters it was working with Israeli authorities and trying to block violent comments, though the company did not directly address Erdan’s comments.